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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Religion shoudn&apos;t be unhealthy',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/07/27.jpg" alt="A branch fell, so the sidewalk&apos;s closed." class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<p>
		I think my <code>palette</code> mod is complete, save for one part: the colour-rounding code for when one of the two smaller palettes is used in the resulting item.
		For the ingredient items, smaller palettes are already accounted for.
		In fact, between the fact that I scrambled the palette to account for drops and the fact that every colour on the smaller palettes exist on the larger palette, no special treatment of these palettes is needed for ingredients, only results.
		I just needed to run the palette-scrambling code on all three palettes just the same.
	</p>
	<p>
		I was still emotionally drained from yesterday when I worked on this though, so I&apos;ll have to finish up this mod later.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Mission_Society_Church_of_God">Wikipedia</a> seems to imply the church the missionary yesterday is from may not be what it&apos;s cracked up to be.
		They may be a profit-driven cult that targets the vulnerable.
		I may be just worked up over nothing.
		So why are they so convincing?
		Does that make me a vulnerable person?
		Sure enough, their website does have a spot where it <a href="https://h.watv.org/SaintInfo_overseas/sign/login.asp">requests a Social Security number</a>.
		I can&apos;t get quite to the part where it actually has you input the number because I don&apos;t have log in credentials, but the page is very clear that you shouldn&apos;t put in your Social Security number while others might be able to see the number you enter.
		There would be no reason to say that if they didn&apos;t either have people&apos;s Social Security numbers on file or were trying to acquire then through the website.
		This church is bad news.
	</p>
	<p>
		The more I thought on it too, the less the cult&apos;s story added up.
		For example, if this planet is a prison, why don&apos;t we have our memories from before?
		How can we be sorry, and how can we make amends if we don&apos;t even remember doing anything wrong?
		I felt emotionally torn up yesterday and this morning.
		But after writing off the cult, by the end of the work day, I was feeling <strong>*much*</strong> better.
		Sure, that&apos;s not at all proof that they cult is wrong in their beliefs.
		However, I like to think that if a god or gods had created me specifically to be their underlings, they would&apos;ve crafted me to feel <strong>*good*</strong> about them, not hate and dread them for their motives and lack of compassion.
		Seriously.
		I haven&apos;t felt that awful in a <strong>*long*</strong> time.
		I can&apos;t say for sure whether there will be a next life.
		However, I&apos;ll certainly be healthier in <strong>*this*</strong> life without their influence.
	</p>
	<p>
		Still, if I get a chance, I wouldn&apos;t mind investigating them more.
		Pretending to join them so I can see what they&apos;re all about from the inside.
		Apparently, they&apos;re trying to gain followers in the area specifically so they can erect a church here.
		I&apos;m told their closest one is in Salem.
		I guess I should hope I don&apos;t get a chance to attend their services, as it&apos;d mean they must have gained followers here.
		Still, as far as I can tell, all organised religions are scams, so it matters little which scam people fall for.
		So really, I just need to hope anyone they convert wasn&apos;t an atheist.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The story actually started out pretty dull, though it got interesting near the end.
			The protagonist is on a ship with a bunch of seafarers in the middle of a storm.
			Obviously it wasn&apos;t dull for them, but it wasn&apos;t of much interest to me.
			The protagonist is seasick, and the ship&apos;s fires have been doused by the storm.
			There&apos;s no hope of lighting a new fire, because all the wood is wet (Anderson, n.d.).
		</p>
		<p>
			Off in the distance, a fire is spotted, signalling that there must be land there.
			So they sail closer.
			However, in light of the storm, it&apos;s not safe to try to sail up to the island.
			The storm would cause the ship to crash into the land.
			Instead, they need to send someone out to the island on a lifeboat to procure the dry wood they need.
			Given the region of sea they&apos;re in though, they know the island to be inhabited by trolls.
			None of the crew is willing to go.
			The captain, who is also their king, decides to go out to the island himself, because hie crew is too cowardly.
			They won&apos;t let him do that though, as it&apos;s their job to protect the king even from himself.
			Instead, they want to send the protagonist, deeming him useless for anything else.
			He&apos;s naught but a bard, and not a bard anyone but the king even likes.
			He&apos;s expendable.
			The king agrees to this, and they send the bard to the island (Anderson, n.d.).
		</p>
		<p>
			Apparently in this story, trolls are unable to physically harm anyone who doesn&apos;t show fear.
			The bard thinks he&apos;s protected my a silver amulet around his neck and he knows trolls can&apos;t hurt the unafraid, so he figures the troll doubly can&apos;t hurt him.
			He shows no fear, and even mentions the amulet several times to the troll who keeps threatening him in an attempt to get him to show fear, and the troll keeps insisting the amulet has no effect on trolls.
			He assumes the troll&apos;s lying.
			He also meets the king&apos;s kidnapped daughter, whom the king seems to assume is dead, and decides to rescue her as well.
			The princess pretty much gives him permission to take advantage of her physically, but he declines claiming to be too noble for that.
			He&apos;s actually just too tired, and he&apos;s actually not that noble.
			Upon leaving the troll&apos;s dwelling in the morning, the princess thanks him for his bravery, he again says he had no reason to fear because of the amulet.
			The princess says she thought he knew, and that the troll kept telling him, but that the silver only protects against dark magic.
			Trolls use brute strength, not magic, so silver has no effect on them whatsoever.
			The only thing that saved him was that he showed no fear.
			Somehow, even though no magic is at play, trolls can&apos;t hurt those that show no fear.
			No explanation for this is given.
			He realises that had he been aware the amulet wasn&apos;t protecting him, he&apos;d be dead right now.
			It had been just the placebo he needed, but would never work again should he encounter another troll (Anderson, n.d.).
		</p>
		<p>
			I guess I like the protagonist best, but only because the story was so short that the protagonist was the only one we got to know very well.
			Al other characters were strictly auxiliary.
			He wasn&apos;t noble, or particularly brave.
			He only went to the troll island because the crew forced him to, and he pretty much saved the princess because she was there and he thought it wouldn&apos;t put him into further danger to do so.
			I guess one of the main things that makes him a good character though is that he&apos;s so believable.
			His lack of noble motivation and lack of bravery is very human.
			Most people just aren&apos;t as great as they&apos;d like to think themselves, or as great as others think them.
			Circumstances conspired such that he was able to save a princess, but that wasn&apos;t even his objective (his goal was to get dry firewood) and had he realised the danger he was in, he probably wouldn&apos;t&apos;ve done it.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h2>References:</h2>
			<p>
				Anderson, P. (n.d.). The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29542/29542-h/29542-h.htm"><code>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29542/29542-h/29542-h.htm</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
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